Wolfpacks at War - The U Boat Experience in World War II, by Jak Mallmann Showell
Wolfpacks at War - The U Boat Experience in World War II, by Jak Mallmann Showell
Published by Ian Allan in 2002, 128 pages. Hardback with Dust Jacket (N4025)
Brand New Book
From the front inside fly leaf: German U-boats had almost brought Britain to its knees in the First World War - Twenty years later the story was the same. The German U-boat arm came within a whisker of cutting the lifeline that stretched from America to Europe across the Atlantic Ocean: indeed, had it not been for Ultra, and the decrypting of so much Kriegsmarine radio traffic, the story could have been very different.....
What was it like to be a member of a U-boat crew? This book provides the truth behind the image portrayed so convincingly in the film Das Boot. After the 'happy time' of the early war years, when the U-boats struck seemingly at will and to great effect, the later war years were much grimmer for the Krlegsmarine. Their shore bases bombed incessantly by the Allies, the skies above the Atlantic patrolled by deadly long-range submarine busters like the short Sunderland and their movements tracked by Ultra decrypts and radar, the U-boat crews went to sea knowing that their life expectancy was short and their fate likely to be a watery grave. This is their story, illustrated by a remarkable collection of rare photographs and illustrations, many in colour.
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